ABSTRACT
Although a person ages from the moment of conception to the moment of death, we do not normally speak of an aging child. Aging for most of us carries some connotation of deterioration of health and vitality. Marion Lamb (1977) believes that most biologists concerned with the problems of aging have accepted this assumption and focused on what happens to the individual after maturity is reached. Moreover, much of the biological and medical research on aging has focused on the latter part of the mature adult’s life cycle.
